Apollo promises to protect Orestes, as Orestes has become Apollo's supplicant.

Orestes has a root in ὄρος ( óros ), " mountain ".

There is extant a Latin epic poem, consisting of about 1000 hexameters, called Orestes Tragoedia, which has been ascribed to Dracontius of Carthage.

In Euripides ’ other story about Iphigenia, Iphigenia in Tauris, the play takes place after the sacrifice and after Orestes has killed Clytemnestra and Aegisthus.

In order for Orestes to escape the persecutions of the Erinyes for killing his mother, Clytemnestra, and her lover, Orestes has been ordered by Apollo to go to Tauris.

The significance of Pylades ' lines has invited speculation into whether or not he might represent something more than human next to Orestes ; he might play the role of divine encouragement or fate.

* Orestes: Identified as a drunken and violent loiterer in The Acharnians, he has since then added clothes-stealing to his bag of tricks ( lines 712, 1490 )

The play begins years later when Orestes has returned as a grown man with a plot for revenge, as well as to claim the throne.

Their plan is to have the tutor announce that Orestes has died in a chariot accident, and that two men ( really Orestes and Pylades ) are arriving shortly to deliver an urn with his remains.

Chrysothemis then enters: she has seen some offerings at the tomb of Agamemnon and ( correctly ) concludes that Orestes has returned.

Furthermore, she has had a prophetic dream about her younger brother Orestes and believes that he is dead.

Meanwhile, Orestes has killed his mother Clytemnestra to avenge his father Agamemnon with assistance from his friend Pylades.

Orestes was sent by Apollo to retrieve the image of Artemis from the temple, and Pylades has accompanied him.

Orestes explains that he has avenged Agamemnon's death by killing Clytaemnestra and Aegisthus.

She believes that her father's bloodline has ended with the death of Orestes.

Orestes explains that he has come to this land by the bidding of Phoebus ’ s oracle, and that if he is successful, he might finally be free of the haunting Erinyes.

While the old servant goes to lure Clytemnestra to Electra's house by telling her that her daughter has had a baby, Orestes sets off and kills Aegisthus and returns with the body.

The screenplay written by Orestes Matacena, Clara Hernandez and Camilo Vila has an overwhelming impact in the Cuban American community inspiring many other Cuban American filmmakers to tell their stories with their cameras.

There is one other theory which has been put forward, but which can only apply to non-peristylar temples, that light and air was admitted through the metopes, the apertures between the beams crossing the cella, and it has been assumed that because Orestes was advised in one of the Greek plays to climb up and look through the metopes of the temple, these were left open ; but if Orestes could look in, so could the birds, and the statue of the god would be defiled.

Orestes rejected the accusations, showing that he had been baptised by the Archbishop of Constantinople.

Agamemnon's son Orestes, who had been away, returned and conspired with his sister Electra to avenge their father.

According to another version, used by Euripides in his play Orestes, Helen had long ago left the mortal world by then, having been taken up to Olympus almost immediately after Menelaus ' return.

Thus Orestes would have been a Giant.

After their return to Greece, and having been saved from dangers by Athena, she orders Orestes to take the Xoanon to the town of Halae where he is to build a temple for Artemis Tauropolos and let a man be sacrificed there during every festival in atonement for his own sacrifice.

Orestes had been sent to Phocis during his mother Clytemnestra's affair with Aegisthus.

In order to escape the persecutions of the Erinyes, Orestes had been ordered by Apollo to go to Tauris, carry off the statue of Artemis which had fallen from heaven, and bring it to Athens.

Neoptolemus was killed by Orestes, Agamemmon's son, in dispute over Hermione, the daughter of Menelaus and Helen, whom Orestes had been promised as wife, but whom Neoptolemus had taken.

But after he heard that Hermione his betrothed had been given to Orestes in marriage, he went to Lacedaemon and demanded her from Menelaus.

The bones of Orestes and Theseus were supposed to have been stolen or removed from their original resting place and reburied.

On the advice of the Delphic Oracle, the Spartans searched for the bones of Orestes and brought them home, without which they had been told they could not expect victory in their war against the neighboring Tegeans.

Julius Nepos, who had been nominated by the Eastern Emperor Zeno, was deposed by the rebelled magister militum Orestes, who installed his own son Romulus in the imperial throne.

Another prominent example of anagnorisis in tragedy is in Aeschylus's " The Choephoroi " (" Libation Bearers ") when Electra recognizes her brother, Orestes, after he has returned to Argos from his exile, at the grave of their father, Agamemnon, who had been murdered at the hands of Clytemnestra, their mother.

Orestes is not bound by the false dichotomy of " good " and " evil ," and instead accepts what has been done, choosing to focus on the present and the future.

Saint Orestes or Edistus, after whom the settlement is named, is said to have been martyred near Monte Soratte.

Orestes has avenged his father by murdering his mother, and has been pursued ever since by the implacable Furies.

11 ), the island was founded after the war by bronze-clad warriors from Amyklai, traveling with Orestes.

The play recounts the story of Orestes and his sister Electra in their quest to avenge the death of their father Agamemnon, king of Argos, by killing their mother Clytemnestra and her husband Aegisthus, who had deposed and killed him.

Doña Tidad sought to find a wife for her youngest son, the newly widowed Vicente Orestes Romualdez.

The reasons for Orestes ' decision to crown his son as a puppet-emperor, rather than become Emperor himself, are somewhat unclear.

Unable to appoint himself as the Western Roman Emperor, Orestes instead appointed his son Romulus Augustus as Romulus was a citizen of Rome.

When Odoacer captured Ravenna, killed Orestes, and deposed Romulus on September 4, 476, he proclaimed himself ruler of Italy and asked the Eastern Roman Emperor Zeno to legalize his position as Patricius of the Roman Empire and Zeno's viceroy in Italy.

But Orestes refused to take the letter, claiming Pylades was the fitter person to do so, and thus showed himself almost to be the lover rather than the beloved.

She offered to release Orestes if he would carry home a letter from her to Greece ; he refused to go, but bid Pylades take the letter while he himself will stay and be slain.

But Orestes refused to take the letter, claiming Pylades was the fitter person to do so, and thus showed himself almost to be the lover rather than the beloved.

Image: Goethe Iphigenia in Tauris 1803. jpg | Scene from the 1802 première in Weimar of Goethe's " Iphigenia in Tauris, with Goethe himself as Orestes in the centre.

* 476 – Germanic general Odoacer kills Orestes, forces Romulus Augustus to abdicate and proclaims himself King of Italy.

He lifts the veil to discover who it really is, and Orestes then reveals himself.

Orestes was killed and Odoacer deposed Romulus Augustus, installed himself as ruler over Italy and sent the Imperial insignia to Constantinople.

Zeus points out that Orestes is foreign even to himself.

In response, Zeus tells Orestes of how he himself has ordered the universe and nature based on Goodness, and by rejecting this Goodness, Orestes has rejected the universe itself.

Orestes informs them he has taken their crimes upon himself and that they must learn to build a new life for themselves without remorse.

Sartre wants to stress the fact that Orestes comes to that decision by himself, without the aid or direction of any outside forces, which contrasts with the Orestes in The Libation Bearers, who relies heavily on the direction of the gods.

Scene 3: Orestes wakes, but still believes himself to be in Hades, and thinks that Iphigenia and Pylades have descended there too.

When Orestes finally wakes from his dream ( The curse is lifted, my heart assures me ), he embraces Iphigenia, thanks the gods, and declares himself ready for action again.

Scene 6: Orestes offers himself in single combat, to decide their fate.

Despite Apollo ’ s earlier prophecy, Orestes finds himself tormented by Erinyes or Furies to the blood guilt stemming from his matricide.

Orestes asks the slave why he should spare his life and the slave supplicates himself before Orestes.